Entries from May 2009

May 7, 2009

Preggers in Prenzlauerberg

I didn’t think I was one of those girls. But then suddenly there I was, with seven German women in a sunny yoga studio, chanting “om” and trying to suck in air through a curled up tongue. I wasn’t sure how this was going to help my unborn child, or my aching back for that [...]

May 5, 2009

Why We May Have to Move to France Next

A new report from the OECD just affirmed what we’ve always known:
French people spend more time eating and sleeping than the habitants of any other highly developed country, according to a report published Monday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The French sleep an average of nine hours every night, the report said. [...]

May 2, 2009

May Day Mayhem

Yesterday we experienced, within a few hours, both the quiet ego and the messy id of the German character (the folks above would be the id part).
In the morning we drove with German some friends about a half hour south of Berlin to Beelitz a farming village that is well known for its white asparagus. [...]